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First Day of Summer (sumardagurinn fyrsti [ˈsʏːmarˌtaːɣʏrɪn ˈfɪ(r̥)stɪ]) is an annual public holiday in Iceland that is celebrated on the first Thursday after 18 April (some time between 19 and 25 April). [1] It is a celebration of the start of the first summer month (Harpa) of the old Icelandic calendar.
The 2024 summer solstice takes place Thursday, June 20, at 4:50 p.m. ET. The summer solstice is the longest day of the year , when the sun is at its highest point in the sky.
This year, the first day of summer, also known as the summer solstice, is Thursday, June 20. The true solstice will arrive in the Northern Hemisphere at exactly 4:51 p.m. EST.
When is the 2024 summer solstice exactly? It will fall at 20:51 UTC (Universal Time Coordinated) on June 20. Your local time zone in relation to UTC determines the time and even the date that the ...
The summer solstice is the day with the longest period of daylight and shortest night of the year in that hemisphere, when the sun is at its highest position in the sky. At either pole there is continuous daylight at the time of its summer solstice. The opposite event is the winter solstice. The summer solstice occurs during the hemisphere's ...
The first official day of summer is Thursday, June 20, 2024. It is also known as the summer solstice and it officially arrives at exactly 4:51 p.m. That said, many people tend to recognize ...
Midnight sun (or rather twilight) in Iceland during the summer This map shows the difference between legal time and local mean time in Iceland. Iceland is significantly ahead of local solar time as it observes UTC+00:00 instead of the geographical UTC−01:00 or UTC−02:00.
Memorial Day is usually the unofficial beginning of summer. But, in reality the first official day of summer is Thursday, June 20, 2024.